[Athena] 5 EHST à Athènes. Appel à contribution dans deux symposia organisés par la commission "Women and Gender Studies" de la DHST (suite)

["Anne-Sophie Godfroy" <anne-sophie.godfroy AT u-pec.fr>]

Chers collègues,


La commission "Women and Gender Studies" de la DHST organise deux symposia
au 5e congrès de la société européenne d'histoire des sciences à Athènes
du 1er au 3 novembre 2012.
Le premier, "Women in the Laboratory from early modern times to the 20th
century", est organisé par Brigitte Van Tiggelen et Annette Lykness
(message précédent), le second, "Women and the cosmopolitan character of
science", est organisé par Annette Vogt, Maria Rentetzi et moi-même (voir
ci-dessous).
Date limite pour envoyer des abstracts: 24 février.


Bien cordialement,
Anne-Sophie Godfroy
IHPST
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Dear colleagues,

We want to call your attention to the session "Women and the cosmopolitan
character of science" during the 5th International Conference of the
European Society of History of Science is organized in Athens, 1-3
November 2012 (see http://5eshs.hpdst.gr/). This is one out of the 2
symposia organized by the Commission on Women and Gender Studies of the
DHST  (see http://www.womenscommission-dhst.net/).

We invite you to submit an abstract through the conference website:
http://5eshs.hpdst.gr/participants.
The deadline for abstract submission has been set for February 24, 2012
(Notification of acceptance by 2 April 2012)

Gender and the cosmopolitan character of science

It is indubitable that local cultures played an important role in the
development of science. Exchange of knowledge and expertise among
scientists of several countries stand on the top of their agenda. This
session investigates the historical process that gave rise to the spread
of practices, skills, and knowledge, as well as the exchange of
instruments and materials among different local scientific cultures. The
session wants to confront the tension between the local and the global
focusing on the gender dimension of cosmopolitanism in science. How might
the rubric of cosmopolitanism help reformulate our understanding of gender
differences in science, technology and medicine?

Through comparative and contextual approaches we want to examine the
process of cosmopolitanism in science from a gender perspective. We aim to
bring together case studies ranging from the seventeenth to twentieth
centuries that examine
- the development of local cultures in science and the role gender played
in this process
- the scientific personae, both female and male, and the ways that it has
been constructed either as a cosmopolitan or a provincial character
- traveling as a process of becoming cosmopolitan in science and how this
affected differently women’s and men’s opportunities from scientific work
- gender differences in the methods of knowledge exchange

To find the symposium on the website of the conference, click here:
http://5eshs.hpdst.gr/symposia/107

The organiszers
Annette B. Vogt
President of the Women's Commission of the DHST/IUHPS
Maria Rentetzi
Anne-Sophie Godfroy
Members of the Board of the Women's Commission of the DHST/IUHPS

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Anne-Sophie Godfroy
IHPST